After the words Trump promised Palestine uprising and Israel tightens security

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The Israel Defense Forces dispatches several additional battalions, as well as reconnaissance and defense units to the West Bank after assessing the situation by the General Staff following the statement by US President Donald Trump about the transfer of the embassy to Jerusalem. This is stated in the incoming representation. TASS the official press release of the Israel Defense Forces.

“After completing the assessment of the situation, the General Staff decided to send several additional battalions, as well as a combat reconnaissance and territorial defense unit, to strengthen the area of ​​Judea and Samaria (Israeli designation for the West Bank - ed.), ”the document says.

In turn, the head of the Politburo of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Ismail Haniyeh, called for the start of a new intifada (Palestinian uprising - ed.) and declared December 8, “a day of wrath.”

“In light of new priorities, the peace process between Palestinians and Israelis has been sacrificed, there will be no deal of the century,” the TV channel quotes him as saying. Al Jazeera.

According to him, Trump's statement "put an end to the Oslo agreements and forever buried the peace process in the Middle East." “This decision means the beginning of a new political stage,” he said.

Recall, on Thursday, Trump made a statement recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the beginning of preparations for the transfer of the American embassy there from Tel Aviv. His statement caused sharp condemnation all over the world, and first of all in the Arab countries.

The status of Jerusalem and especially its holy places is one of the key problems in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. As a result of the Arab-Israeli war 1947-1949, the city of Jerusalem was divided between Israel (the western part of the city) and Transjordan (its eastern part).

5 December 1949, Israel declared Jerusalem its capital. Until 1967, this status extended only to the western part of the city, but during the six-day war, Israel annexed East Jerusalem, gaining control over the entire city, legally separated East Jerusalem from the West Bank and declared its sovereignty over united Jerusalem. In 1980, the Israeli Knesset passed a law proclaiming Jerusalem, one and indivisible, as the capital of Israel.

Over the past years, dozens of neighborhoods have been built in East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians consider theirs and see it as their capital, and now about 200 thousand Israelis live in these settlements. According to the Palestinian-Israeli agreements concluded in Oslo in 1993, the status of the city was to be discussed at the next stages of the peace negotiations between the parties. Israel’s right to Jerusalem was not recognized by the international community.

The US Congress decided to transfer the embassy to Jerusalem back in 1995, which formally meant the recognition of the city as the capital, but until recently the government had constantly postponed the implementation of this decision. At present, the American Embassy is located in Tel Aviv, and the Consulate General is located in Jerusalem. Embassies of all countries of the world are located in Tel Aviv.

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